rc script: manual stop vs system shutdown

[Andriy Gapon]

On 01/08/2019 20:39, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 2019, at 08:53, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible in an rc script to distinguish between a manual stop
>>>> (e.g., service foo stop) and a stop during a system shutdown (via
>>>> rc.shutdown) ?
>>>> Are there any marker variables for that?
>>>> Or something in the global system state?
>>>
>>> Not that I can think of, but I like this idea,
>>> I am sure that use cases exist.
>>
>> Have you looked at:
>> keyword: shutdown
>> etc?
> 
> Well that does indeed seem to wipe out my
> "Not that I can think of".  So infact an rc script
> can tell, it is invoked as:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/foo shutdown
> during a system shutdown
> 
> vs
> 
> /etc/rc.d/foo stop
> when invoked by service foo stop?
> 
> Is that correct?
> 

Except there is no 'foo shutdown'.  It's foo stop in both cases.
To be pedantic, it's foo faststop for shutdown, but that can be manually
invoked as well.

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Andriy Gapon